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I have been a successful public health researcher, academic lecturer, software engineer and data scientist.


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Dennis Wollersheim

I want use my leadership and systems engineering skills to facilitate public health.

Employment

Senior Public Health Officer

Melbourne

Department of Health

Present - 2020

  • Developed systems (using R, SQL, Excel, Bash, Azure) that automated the tasks of three departed staff.
  • Setup cross departmental collaboration with CVDL, HPB and aged care. Setup five linkage data teams channels to facilitate communication and automated data sharing.
  • Setup a 14 member R User’s group, and promoted best practice R coding and version control across multiple teams - as a result, 15 people came to my most recent R training session

Public Health Researcher

Bundoora

La Trobe University

Present - 2001

  • Collaborate with teams from Public Health, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Physiotherapy and Computer Science
  • Worked with billion record health datasets, Australia wide mesh block level GIS data, Azure and local La Trobe computer clusters, Postgres and Mysql databases, Drupal content management system, Redcap surveys and machine learning
  • Fifty four publications, 845 Citations, with an h-index of 15.

Health Information Management Lecturer

Bundoora

La Trobe University

2020 - 2002

  • Designed and implemented courses in data modelling, systems analysis, Tableau, R, SQL, artificial intelligence, systems analysis, Perl. Sample course materials
  • Course and subject design, thesis supervision, administrative process redesign
  • Used massive health datasets for assignments to generate unique per-student tasks, facilitating collaboration and peer learning

Entrepreneur

Melbourne

Dot com startup

2001 - 1999

  • Designed and implemented the first Melbourne web based real estate visit mapping tool, and car sales price comparison websites









Education

My combination of social and technical skills is unique and functional.

Phd (Computer Science)

Bundoora

La Trobe University

2005 - 2001

  • Thesis topic: Dynamic Query Expansion for Information Retrieval of Imprecise Medical Queries
  • Created a ‘Google for doctors’, using natural language processing and the 1.2 million term Unified Medical Language System to enhance medical information retrieval

Bachelor of Social Work

Bundoora

La Trobe University

1996 - 1994

  • As a social worker, I led behaviour change groups for violent men and play groups with at-risk children

BSc (Computer Science)

Lethbridge, AB, Canada

University of Lethbridge

1985 - 1981

  • Created a graphics tablet based electronic ruler to facilitate data entry of 8 measurements of 300 poplar leaves

Personal Experience

Peer Counselling Teacher

Melbourne

N/A

Present - 1996

  • Active member of a grass roots peer leadership training network
  • Led 30 person multi day workshops, and weekly and monthly groups of multi-year duration.

Committee Secretary

Brunswick East

The Bicycle Recycle Shed

Present - 2015

  • Improved the volunteer induction experience, leading to a 10x growth in new volunteer signups.

Board Secretary

Springvale

South East Community Links (SECL)

2011 - 2009

  • I was co-opted to the board to advise on the transition to digital record keeping. SECL has a budget of over $4million / year.